HONDROS NUR 155 UPDATED COMPREHENSIVE
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Interpreting 1- Clustering related information - ✔✔Grouping together information with
a common theme. Organizing data to determine issues, problems, or concerns and
better understand the issue
✔✔Interpreting 2- Recognizing inconsistencies - ✔✔Mismatched data , seeing if
subjective and objective data support each other
✔✔Interpreting 3- Checking accuracy and reliability - ✔✔realizing something doesn't
seem right; taking action to determine if it is accurate or not.
✔✔Interpreting 4- Distinguishing relevant from irrelevant - ✔✔Deciding which info is
pertinent to that matter at hand.
Associated with current condition
✔✔Interpreting 5- Determining the importance of information - ✔✔nurses must be able
to sort through clinical noise, act on important information and disregard what is not
important; you evaluate information to identify a possible new issue or problem that was
not previously identified. (figure out what is new or what is changed.)
, ✔✔Interpreting 6- Comparing and Contrasting - ✔✔Looking at two similar cases,
identifying the subtle differences, and acting on them.
✔✔Interpreting 7- (Predicting and) Managing potential complications - ✔✔Look at the
big picture to consider possible complications
Knowing common complications but considering individual differences.
✔✔Interpreting 8 Judging how much ambiguity is acceptable - ✔✔Nursing judgment
based on acceptable normal ranges may vary depending on patient situation
How much wiggle room?
When is action needed? When pt becomes symptomatic
✔✔Using legal, ethical & professional guidelines - ✔✔(interpreting#9) nurses must
consider legal, ethical, and professional guidelines when providing care. nurses must
work within the legal guidelines of the nurse state practice act.
✔✔Ex:
HIPAA violation - ✔✔Using legal, ethical & professional guidelines
Tanners-interpreting
✔✔Ex:
Pt has flu and a temp of 100.2
Temp is out of normal range but it's ok based on pt situation.
I.e temp is your body's response to fighting infection - ✔✔Judging how much ambiguity
is acceptable
Tanners- Interpreting
✔✔Ex:
Child bedtime is at 8pm. Tomorrow is a holiday and no school do you let child stay up
until 9. - ✔✔Judging how much ambiguity is acceptable
Tanners- interpreting
✔✔Ex:
Encourage use of incentive spirometer or initiate an ambulation schedule to prevent
pneumonia or atelectasis (collapsed lung) - ✔✔(Predicting and) Managing potential
complications
✔✔Ex:
Two pts have arthritis, what's different and what's the same - ✔✔Comparing and
contrasting
Tanners- Interpreting
✔✔Ex:
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Interpreting 1- Clustering related information - ✔✔Grouping together information with
a common theme. Organizing data to determine issues, problems, or concerns and
better understand the issue
✔✔Interpreting 2- Recognizing inconsistencies - ✔✔Mismatched data , seeing if
subjective and objective data support each other
✔✔Interpreting 3- Checking accuracy and reliability - ✔✔realizing something doesn't
seem right; taking action to determine if it is accurate or not.
✔✔Interpreting 4- Distinguishing relevant from irrelevant - ✔✔Deciding which info is
pertinent to that matter at hand.
Associated with current condition
✔✔Interpreting 5- Determining the importance of information - ✔✔nurses must be able
to sort through clinical noise, act on important information and disregard what is not
important; you evaluate information to identify a possible new issue or problem that was
not previously identified. (figure out what is new or what is changed.)
, ✔✔Interpreting 6- Comparing and Contrasting - ✔✔Looking at two similar cases,
identifying the subtle differences, and acting on them.
✔✔Interpreting 7- (Predicting and) Managing potential complications - ✔✔Look at the
big picture to consider possible complications
Knowing common complications but considering individual differences.
✔✔Interpreting 8 Judging how much ambiguity is acceptable - ✔✔Nursing judgment
based on acceptable normal ranges may vary depending on patient situation
How much wiggle room?
When is action needed? When pt becomes symptomatic
✔✔Using legal, ethical & professional guidelines - ✔✔(interpreting#9) nurses must
consider legal, ethical, and professional guidelines when providing care. nurses must
work within the legal guidelines of the nurse state practice act.
✔✔Ex:
HIPAA violation - ✔✔Using legal, ethical & professional guidelines
Tanners-interpreting
✔✔Ex:
Pt has flu and a temp of 100.2
Temp is out of normal range but it's ok based on pt situation.
I.e temp is your body's response to fighting infection - ✔✔Judging how much ambiguity
is acceptable
Tanners- Interpreting
✔✔Ex:
Child bedtime is at 8pm. Tomorrow is a holiday and no school do you let child stay up
until 9. - ✔✔Judging how much ambiguity is acceptable
Tanners- interpreting
✔✔Ex:
Encourage use of incentive spirometer or initiate an ambulation schedule to prevent
pneumonia or atelectasis (collapsed lung) - ✔✔(Predicting and) Managing potential
complications
✔✔Ex:
Two pts have arthritis, what's different and what's the same - ✔✔Comparing and
contrasting
Tanners- Interpreting
✔✔Ex:
